Ciarán Murphy

It's all about traffic flow.

It doesn't mind the amount of traffic.

It's just the flow and the right... No, actually, no flow whatsoever.

Just get them all pointed in the right direction, but not moving.

In each other's way for the first 18 miles.

It finally thins out a bit around mile 20.

You can really get your legs moving at that stage.

Anyway, 59-odd thousand people ran it and there was a piece of sporting history made by the winner of the men's event.

Yeah, stunning achievement by Sebastian Saue, also by Kilkenny's Peter Lynch, who finished top 10 in this race.

2.06.08 was his time.

Took two minutes off the Irish record.

Now, you might expect this sub-two-hour marathon stuff would be

a dream scenario for me Murph.

Yeah.

Transport yourself back in time and somebody on BBC radio, my equivalent on the wireless back when Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile was a keen miler himself and got to actually talk about this mythical barrier being broken but doesn't really fire my guns.

Brian was already looking at me Why not?

with disappointment because well a few reasons I mean at least one of them should be fairly obvious.

So I've become a bit I've become less awed by world records over the years.

a very good race like the men's 1500 metres was it the Tokyo Olympics or Paris absolute barn burner yeah okay too many records yeah too many well I think this is the one that he lost yeah yeah too many records have been subsequently had a little asterisk placed beside them you know in this case in particular it's

It's hard to fully buy into Kenyan athletics at the moment, guys.